20 Things You Didn't Know About Batman Begins

16. Co-Writer David Goyer€™s Job Was To Be "Comic Book Guy"

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Filmmakers working on comic book properties love to promise geeks that they respect and cherish the source material, and then we get a Hulk movie where Bruce Banner is a mopey guy who fights dogs and hops in the sand dunes. Love his Batman films or hate them, at least Christopher Nolan has always been honest; while he always liked the character of Batman, he has openly confessed that he was €œby no means any kind of comic book expert€, and one of the major reasons he hired Blade scribe David Goyer to help him carve out the script for Batman Begins was because Goyer was a comic book geek €“ hell, had written comics. Nolan presumably felt that a collaboration between a guy who knew his geek history backward and forward and a guy who was a "comics virgin" would be a good balance. It wasn€™t always an easy collaboration; on Batman Begins, Nolan initially told Goyer he didn€™t like the idea of Dr. Jonathan Crane wearing a scarecrow mask, didn€™t understand why the hell Batman's costume had spiked gauntlets or impractically long ears. €œThere were times when that drove me completely crazy,€ Goyer said in the book The Art and Making of the Dark Knight Trilogy, €œbut it was also great. You want someone to push you, and you€™re willing to be pushed by Chris because he€™s so good and cares so much.€
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